Nicholas Wadley

Nicholas Wadley (30 April 1935 - 1 November 2017) was a British art critic, art historian, biographer, cartoonist and illustrator.

He was born in Elstree, Hertfordshire, the youngest child of Kitty, an administrator at the Bank of England, and Wilfred Wadley, an accountant for the RAF. he was educated at Reed’s School, in Cobham, Surrey, and graduated in fine art at Kingston School of Art in 1956, did National Service in the R.A.F., and graduated in art history at the Courtauld Institutein London in 1961. With his first wife, Pauline, he had two children, Caroline and Chris. From 1962 to1985 he taught at Chelsea School of Art, as head of art history after 1970, and took early retirement in 1985. He was a friendof Stefan and Franciszka Themerson and an admirer of their work, which he wrote on extensively. He later married Franciszka Themerson's niece, Jasia Reichardt. After his retirement, Nick - as he became as an illustrator - published many cartoons and drawings

• Michelangelo (1965)
• Manet (1967)
• The Drawings of Van Gogh (1969)
• Cubism (1972)
• Cézanne and His Art (1975)
• Gauguin (1979)
• Noa Noa, Gauguin's Tahiti (1985)
• Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Drawing (1991)

• Nick Wadley’s Guide to British Artists (2003)
• Man + Dog (2009)
• Man + Doctor (2012)
• Blue Owl (2014)
• Man + Table(2016)
• Man + Book (2018)

• Modern British Watercolours (1964)
• Jacques Lipchitz, Sculptures and Drawings (1973)
• Seymour Lipton, Recent Work (1974)
• Henri Matisse (1978)
• Jacques Lipchitz, Sculptures and Drawings from the Cubist Epoch (1978)
• Barbara Hepworth. Carvings and Bronzes (1979)
• Rufino Tamayo (1979)
• John Davies, Recent Sculpture andDrawings (1980)
• Kurt Schwitters in Exile, the Latev Work 1937-48 (1981)
• Gwyther Irwin, A Retrospective (1987)
• Renoir: a retrospective (1987)
• The Drawings of Franciszka Themerson (1991)